Wilco Get Experimental On June Album: Update Plus Early Track List

In Rolling Stone's Spring Album Preview, Jeff Tweedy says Wilco's country-tinged album, due in June, is their best yet. "We wanted to go in there with more of an eye for sculpting something sonically," he says. The group also confirmed that the album's closing track, "You and I," will feature Canadian songstress Feist on vocals.

Today Wilco took to their official Website to tell fans they've spent the past few weeks in Valencia, California, mixing the disc. The band adds, "Here's a list of song titles spied on the reels — note this is not necessarily complete and not in sequence:"

"Deeper Down"
"Conscript (aka I'll Fight)"
"One Wing"
"Solitaire"
"Wilco (the song)"
"Country Disappeared"
"Everlasting"
"Bull Black Nova"
"Sonny Feeling"
"You and I"

You read that right. As of right now, there is a song called "Wilco (the song)" on the album. How "Bad Company" of them. As we reported in the Spring Album preview, the theme song of sorts contains the chorus "Wilco will love you." The album's experimentation is anchored once again by Tweedy's sly, insightful and often heartbreaking lyrics. "Deeper Down" opens with "By the end of the bout, he was punched out, fists capsized, muscles shouting," while "My Country Disappeared" explores America's "crushed cities," concluding "There's nothing left here." For much more on the upcoming Wilco album, and 45 more of the biggest releases on the way, check out our Spring Music Preview:

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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